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    Core data standard and implements the Star Schema with extensions to the Darwin Core.
    The Germaplasm Vocabulary provides some of the fundamental terms from the plant genetic resouces
    community for food and agriculture (PGRFA). Most of these terms are from the Multi-Crop Passport
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    of the United Nations (FAO). Some few additional terms developed by the European Coopertive Programme for 
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<h1>Germplasm Vocabulary (Darwin Core extension for genebanks)</h1>
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<h3>Germplasm Vocabulary, released 28 August 2012</h3>


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  <th class="nobr">Title:</th>
  <td>Germplasm Vocabulary (Darwin Core extension for genebanks)</td>
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  <th>Abstract:</th>
  <td>The Germplasm Vocabulary (Darwin Core extension for genebanks) was developed to provide a bridge between the 
  established standards in use by the genebank community for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) 
  and the standards maintained by the Biodiversity Information Standards/Taxonomic Databases Working Group 
  (<a href='http://www.tdwg.org' target='_blank'>TDWG</a>).
  The Germplasm Vocabulary provides an extension to the <a href='http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms' target='_blank'>Darwin Core</a>
  standard of the TDWG for occurrences.
  Darwin Core can itself be seen as an extension to the Dublin Core Metata Data Initiative
  <a href='http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/' target='_blank'>(DCMI)</a> terms.
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  The primary objective for creating the Germplasm Vocabulary was to describe the additional terminology required
  for exchange of genebank datasets using the
  <a href='http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/' target='_blank'>GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT)</a>.
  The terms included in the DwC germplasm are from the Multi-Crop Passport Descriptors 
  (<a href='http://www.bioversityinternational.org/index.php?id=19&user_bioversitypublications_pi1[showUid]=2192' target='_blank'>MCPD</a>)
  and the proposed descriptors for germplasm characterization and evaluation data (C&E)
  (see: <a href='http://www.epgris3.eu/EPGRIS3%2020090507workshop.htm' target='_blank'>[EPGRIS3_WORKSHOP]</a> and
  <a href='http://www.epgris3.eu/docs/activities/2-05/Inclusion%20of%20C&E%20data.pdf'>[EPGRIS3_C&E_TERMS]</a>)
  from the <a href='http://www.epgris3.eu' target='_blank'>EPGRIS3 group</a> of the 
  European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources <a href=http://www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/Index.htm' target='_blank'>(ECPGR)</a>.
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  The (now obsolete) prototype version 0.1 of the DwC germplasm was developed by the Nordic Genetic Resources Center 
  (<a href="http://www.nordgen.org" target="_blank">NordGen</a> and Bioversity International 
  (<a href="http://www.bioversityinternational.org" target="_blank">Bioversity</a>) in August 2009.
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  <th>Date issued:</th>
  <td>28 August 2012 (prototype version 24 August 2009)</td>
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  <th>Identifier:</th>
  <td><a href="http://purl.org/germplasm/germplasmTerm#">http://purl.org/germplasm/germplasmTerm#</a></td>
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  <th class='nobr'>Project home page:</th>
  <td><a href='http://code.google.com/p/darwincore-germplasm/' target='_blank'>http://code.google.com/p/darwincore-germplasm/</a>
  <br /><a href="http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/Germplasm">http://terms.tdwg.org/wiki/Germplasm</a>
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  <th>Creator:</th>
  <td>Nordic Genetic Resources Center (NordGen) and Bioversity International (Bioversity)</td>
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  <th>Contributors:</th>
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  Dag Endresen (NordGen, Bioversity, GBIF, University of Oslo), 
  Helmut Kn&uuml;pffer (IPK Gatersleben), 
  Elizabeth Arnaud (Bioversity), 
  Milko Skofic (Bioversity), 
  Luca Matteis (Bioversity), 
  Richard Bruskiewish (Bioversity),
  Massimo Buonaiuto (Bioversity),
  Jonas Nordling (NordGen),
  Samy Gaiji (GBIF)
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  <th>Cite as :</th>
  <td>Endresen, D.T.F. and H. Knüpffer (2012). The Darwin Core extension for genebanks opens up new opportunities for sharing genebank data sets. Biodiversity Informatics 8:11-29. Available online at https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/jbi/article/view/4095</td>
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  <th class='nobr'>Document Status:</th>
  <td>Deployed with the GBIF IPT</td>
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<div><b>germplasm</b> = <a href="http://purl.org/germplasm/germplasmTerm#">http://purl.org/germplasm/germplasmTerm#</a> Germplasm Vocabulary</div>
<div><b>dwc</b> = <a href="http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/">http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/</a> Darwin Core (DwC)</div>
<div><b>dcterms</b> = <a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/">http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/</a> Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)</div>


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